Cloud Storage offers a variety of options to help you protect your data from accidental or malicious deletion and recover your data in the event of a disaster. These options can be useful for legal or regulatory compliance, as well as for protecting data that is critical to your business.
Options
| Feature | Summary | Use case |
|---|---|---|
| Object holds | Prevent individual objects from being deleted or overwritten by placing metadata flags on the objects you want to retain. |
Data protection |
| Soft delete | Recovers deleted objects and retains them for a specified period of time before they're permanently deleted. |
Data protection |
| Bucket lock |
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Data protection |
| Object Retention Lock |
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Data protection |
| Dual-regions | Store data simultaneously in two geographically separate regions. | Data redundancy |
| Turbo replication | Replicates data to both regions within a dual-region with an RPO of 15 minutes. | Data redundancy |
| Cross-bucket replication | Asynchronously replicates data from a source bucket to a destination bucket in a different location. | Data redundancy |
| Backup and DR Service | A managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service that provides secure storage and centralized backup management at scale for VMs and other workloads running in Google Cloud. With Backup and DR Service, you can:
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Data backup, disaster recovery |
| Storage Transfer Service | Migrates or replicates data to, from, or between object and file storage systems, such as Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, and on-premises. | Data backup, data migration |
| Transfer Appliance | Lets you transfer large amounts of data from on-premises to Cloud Storage by using a physical appliance. | Data backup, data migration |